FNC 35 card, start times and how to watch Zdravkovic vs Vargas

FNC 35 puts 11 fights on at Sportski Centar Morača in Podgorica, Montenegro on Saturday, November 7, and not all of them are MMA. Our data lists the heavyweight co-main and one more bout as kickboxing and a third as boxing in the cage, and four Montenegrins fight at home. The main event is a five-round bantamweight title fight: an unbeaten Serbian defends his FNC belt against an Argentine making his FNC debut.

Miljan Zdravkovic (10-0), 27, is 2-0 in FNC: a second-round submission of Bondo Kikadze at FNC 23 in May 2025 and a unanimous decision over Josh Hill at FNC 26 last December. Before that he stopped both of his KSW opponents, Mariusz Joniak in the first round at KSW 86 in September 2023 and Kamil Szkaradek in the second at KSW 92 in March 2024. He has not fought since December 20. Joaquin Vargas (10-3), 25, won his last fight by first-round TKO of Amauri Maia at Noche de Campeones 11 in May, four months after a second-round submission loss to Matias Palma at LATAMM 4 in January.

The co-main is the strangest pairing on the card. Rade Opacic, 29, a Serbian heavyweight kickboxer, went 7-1 in eight ONE kickboxing bouts between 2020 and 2024 and has fought under the Glory banner since, beating Colin George at Glory 107 in April. Alexander Soldatkin (18-4 in MMA), 33, won three times in RIZIN in 2025, the last a unanimous decision over Marek Samociuk in September, and was then booked against Ryan Bader for RIZIN's December 30 card, a fight that never happened. His pro kickboxing record is 1-1, against Opacic's 14-6, so if the rule set holds, he is the one fighting on the other man's terms.

Start times

• Full card: 12:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CET in Podgorica / 5:30 p.m. GMT / 9:30 a.m. PT), Saturday, November 7

This bell has moved. Until October 19 we had the card starting at 8:00 p.m. in Podgorica; the promotion now has it 90 minutes earlier, so check it against anything you saved. FNC has not published a separate clock for the two prelims, which open the show ahead of a nine-fight main card. The US left daylight time on November 1, so Podgorica is back to six hours ahead of New York.

The full card

Main card

• Miljan Zdravkovic vs Joaquin Vargas, bantamweight title
• Rade Opacic vs Alexander Soldatkin, heavyweight, kickboxing
• Ivan Sičaja vs Alan Villalba, featherweight
• Dejan Zlaticanin vs Florin Lupu, catchweight, boxing
• Tomislav Sičaja vs Andrija Stankovic, welterweight
• Dalibor Dragojević vs Ahmed Abdulkadirov, welterweight
• Karomatullo Sufiev vs Piotr Niedzielski, catchweight
• Luka Bubanja vs Stefan Dobrijević, catchweight, kickboxing
• Pawel Politylo vs Emrah Sonmez, lightweight

Prelims

• Chiril Negru vs Botond Petrényi, welterweight
• Mensur Kijamet vs Mert Basbudak, featherweight

Photo: Drogon123 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Two fights carry history from earlier FNC cards. Ivan Sičaja (8-2) beat Politylo twice in 2025, by split decision at FNC 21 in February and by second-round TKO at FNC 24 in September, though he was stopped himself by Eduard Kexel at FNC 29 in April. Villalba (21-9) arrives on three straight TKO wins, the latest over Ahmed Vila at FNC 32 in June. Sufiev (13-1) submitted Abdulkadirov in the first round at FNC 27 in February, and Abdulkadirov is two slots up the card against Dragojević. Niedzielski (22-10), with 32 pro fights, lost a unanimous decision to Marko Bojković at FNC 31 in May.

Most of this card is new. Since October 19, seven of the 11 bouts have been added: Sičaja vs Villalba and Bubanja vs Dobrijević that day, Sufiev vs Niedzielski on October 21, Zlaticanin vs Lupu, Negru vs Petrényi and Kijamet vs Basbudak on October 27, and Politylo vs Sonmez on October 29. Sonmez (16-5) lost a unanimous decision to Hyder Amil on the Contender Series in 2023 and has won twice since. Zlaticanin, 42, fights at home after a bare-knuckle booking against Said-Khusein Akhyadov at a BKFC Fight Night on October 17 fell through. Every change is logged on the event page.

How to watch

The main card is pay-per-view worldwide on FNC.tv, the promotion's own streaming platform. The prelims stream free on the Fight Nation Championship YouTube channel. The listing is at how to watch FNC 35.

Make your picks for all 11 fights at the FNC 35 pick'em, and follow live results on the event page as the card runs. If you missed the last one, our FNC 34 results cover the October card in Skopje.